An extraordinary account has been published, apparently through Renter's Agency,
of a plan arranged by Armenian leaders for a general rising of their people throughout Turkey. Arms have been imported, money has been sub- scribed, and the Armenians, in Constantinople in particular, are ready for the rising, which is to take place in May. Detailed as the story is, we do not believe a word of it. That the Armenians are half-mad with indignation and hope is true, and very natural, but they are not such fools as to give the Sultan's Government a month's warning. There can be no great supply of arms in Armenia, and the Armenians of Constantinople are about as likely to rise as the Jews of London. The story has either been invented to diminish European feeling for the Turks, or is intended to work upon the personal fears of the Sultan. In neither case should well-informed journals have published it without discrediting commentary.
